Jose Hernandez Diaz
@JoseHernandezDz
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NEA. Writer in Residence: @UTKnoxville. The Fire Eater; Bad Mexican, Bad American; The Parachutist; Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man; The Lighthouse Tattoo
Northern OC, Southeast LA, CA
Joined December 2016
Omg! My book is here! Love it. It’s perfect 😍
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"slut era" I whisper to myself as I purchase more contemporary poetry books than I know I can handle. .
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Congrats to @adalimon on a two-yr extension as United States Poet Laureate. Here's one of my favorites of Ada's poems.
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Here's a prose poem by U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, which I usually share in my prose poetry workshops.
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Once in awhile I remember the Elliot line from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: "I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas." Which poetic lines pop in your head every now and then?.
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Remember a while back when I said an exciting press requested to see my manuscript? Well, good news: they accepted it & are going to publish it! Acre Books, an imprint of The Cincinnati Review will publish my poetry collection: Bad Mexican, Bad American! Coming Spring 2024!🎉🎉🎉
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Dear Editors, friendly reminder: do not ask me to italicize the Spanish words in my poems. I learned this from Eduardo C. Corral many yrs ago & agree that Spanish, like Chicanxs in general, is not foreign to the Americas.
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Excited to announce that my third full-length poetry collection “Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man” was selected by Juan Felipe Herrera as the winner of the 2023 Benjamin Saltman Award and will be published by Red Hen Press next year!🎉🎉🎉
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Here's a prose poem by the first Latina U. S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, which I usually share in my prose poetry workshops.
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My full-length manuscript "The Parachutist" has been accepted by a wonderful press! Full announcement coming soon. 🎉🎉🎉.
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what are your favorite literary lectures on YouTube or lit podcasts? I'm starting to listen to more lectures/criticism. .
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COVER REVEAL‼️‼️‼️‼️Excited to share the cover of my forthcoming book “Bad Mexican, Bad American” (Acre Books, 2024) coming in February 2024! I will have copies at AWP Kansas City, see you there. Art by J. Chavez.
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Out of the hospital! Feeling better. Rejuvenated and grateful. Mil gracias, sincerely, to everyone for the love. Y’all are truly beautiful. Excited to get back in the poetry & teaching game.🔥
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Here's the official announcement: Sundress Publications will publish my second full-length book, "The Parachutist," in early 2025. My thx to the kind editors. Excited to share my work with everyone soon! 🎉🎉🎉
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"Our diverse team of Editors has chosen to pass on your manuscript."
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The late (and great) James Tate on the prose poem.
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Excited to announce I'll be joining the English/Creative Writing dept faculty at the University of Tennessee as a Visiting Writer in Residence for the 2024-25 academic yr. Psyched abt this opportunity & working w/talented writers at U of Tennessee. Go Vols! (They tell me Jack
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Can't wait to send my h.s. English teacher my poetry book "Bad Mexican, Bad American." Still remember junior year of high school when I sat in her class, a "c" student, suspended twice for fighting, thinking, "this teacher makes writing sound interesting. I want to be a.
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Shout out to all the poets. Whether you're published or unpublished. Writing for years or months. From personal experience I know people have questioned me as a writer. Those people are usually miserable on the inside. Keep doing your thing. Keep shining.🔥💯.
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I want to give a shout out to all poets/writers. No one started off widely published. We most likely all went through rejection. Have patience with your craft. It gets better. Show respect, but don't let anyone belittle you. Much love & good luck!✍️📚💙.
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Here's a poem we will close-read in our Latinx Poets with Prompts generative workshop. "Gloves" by José Angel Araguz.
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just got hired as a Writer in Residence for the 2024-25 academic yr at a university. more details soon!🍾🪅🎉.
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Self portrait with first full length poetry book!
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Lit mags are like: "We open for submissions tomorrow! Send us your best, your worst, your most defiant, the squirrel you ran over on the freeway, the drive-thru receipts piling up in your car, your sonnets, your odes to the decline of western civilization as we know it!".
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Thrilled to share the cover of my very next book, “The Parachutist,” due out in January 2025 with Sundress Publications! Cover art: Luisa Azevedo.
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Out of the ER. In my own room now. Getting treatment. Should be out of here in a day or two. 👍
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Over the past 7 yrs, I submitted to Crazyhorse 15 times, plus some that were withdrawn. Happy to have 3 poems/prose poems in the Fall 2021 issue. Anyway, thought I'd share. #keepsubmitting
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shout out to people who write. who sit down to create something that wasn't there before. shout out to people who innovate, explore. people interested in sound, rhythm, form. shout out to first drafts, hard edits, fine-tuning, stepping back, coming back, the thrill, the triumph.
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Obligatory "my book is at BARNES & NOBLE" pic.
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Shout out to ALL the writers. regardless of awards, books, publications, etc. If you are writing at all. you are building, imagining, uplifting, speaking truth to power, rebelling, inspiring. creating something from nothing & that is a hell of a lot. 🔥💯.
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So excited to announce I have been named the Fall 2023 Carolyn Moore Writer in Residence, sponsored by Portland Community College! See you in the fall Pacific Northwest! @PCC_CMWH 🎉🎉🎉🍾🍾🍾
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not everyday your first full-length poetry book is reviewed in Publishers Weekly, especially as a first-gen Mexican American. !
Excited abt this great review of "Bad Mexican, Bad American" in Publishers Weekly!
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Excited to receive an acceptance letter from The Yale Review! They will publish my prose poem "The Stranger" as "Poem of the Week." I remember yrs ago mailing submissions to The Yale Review via snail mail before they went online. Finally made it in!🔥.
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I was waitlisted to my MFA program. Got in. I was waitlisted to a CW PHD program. Didn't get in. I won an NEA at 33 after my first-time submitting. I've been rejected by certain journals for yrs. All this to say: keep submitting!.
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If you recently published a poem and felt it didn't get much of an audience bc perhaps you are new to Twitter or something else. feel free to share it in this thread! I'd love to read it.💘.
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I stole this from a writer who meant to criticize this poem by Diane Seuss but damn look at the mastery of voice, stream of consciousness, it’s intensity, vulnerability, not to mention the vision & amplification of the mundane/setting, juxtaposed/exposed/layered w/the
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Teachers are hot. Librarians are hot. Editors are hot. Poets are hot.🔥💯.
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When I was in high school my mom enrolled in community college. She never had a chance to go to school beyond a few yrs at elementary in Mexico. Everything was new to her. She sat in the front. She would ask so many questions. The young American students would make fun of her.
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Reading poetry in person is 🔥. Poets are 🔥.Poetry lovers are 🔥.
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My full-length poetry manuscript “The Lighthouse Tattoo” has found the perfect publishing home & will be published in Fall 2026! More details later when I can disclose them…this will be my fourth full-length poetry collection & fifth collection overall.🥳🤓🔥.
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am I the only one who likes to visit public libraries when I'm visiting another city??.
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Excited to join the team at @QuarterlyTupelo as an Associate Editor! Please send us your best work!.
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I'm shook. One of Mexico's most famous poets just hit me up to buy my book. OMG, made my day 🤓🙏.
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new Sandra Cisneros poetry collection, coming fall 2022!
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A writer who took some generative prose poetry workshops w/me last yr wrote to tell me she wrote so many prose poems she eventually had a manuscript & she just won first prize in a distinguished contest & her book will be published! & I'm going to write the blurb! Too exciting!🥳.
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Ada Limon in The Best American Poetry 2021.🔥🔥🔥
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Here's "My Mother's 'Broken' English" published in The Acentos Review & forthcoming in my collection, Bad Mexican, Bad American (Acre Books, 2024).
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when you don't publish: "they're not a real writer.".when you publish a lot: "they're a sellout.".when you hustle 3 different gigs/jobs: "they're commercial.".when you're a minimalist: "they're lazy.".bottom line: do what you love.
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Do you have a poem you published recently which perhaps didn't get as many views as you wanted? Feel free to share it in this thread. I think a screenshot would work fine.
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BIG NEWS: excited to join the team at @PalettePoetry as an Editor starting in June! I'll be working on the editorial feedback side of things. Shout out to Joshua Roark for the invite. Can't wait to get started! Btw, we are currently open for submissions. #grateful #orale 🙏💚
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Anytime you see a writer celebrating a publication or a book etc understand that it likely took years misery rejections etc so don't hate celebrate. 💯.
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Stoked that my prose poem "The Lighthouse Tattoo" has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Laurel Review!🔥
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shout out to the poets. keep writing, not writing, submitting, editing, teaching, taking breaks, naps, checking your email, calling a friend, meditating, exercising, celebrating, watching hulu to unwind, congratulating others, keep being yourself even if the world can feel.
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Excited to announce I've been accepted at the residency: Writing At Home At Dawn Until the Apocalypse Is Over (Fall 2020 cohort).
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I want to bring attention to poetry books published in the pandemic. Pls feel free to share a link to your book/chapbook published during the pandemic or forthcoming later this year. THX!.
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I submitted to The American Poetry Review for six years before today's acceptance. #keepsubmitting🙏😎🍾.
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just submitted 6 of my best to The New Yorker.🧐😎.
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Ada Limón, current and first Latina U.S. Poet Laureate.
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what are some of the fully funded PhD creative writing poetry programs??.
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Who is currently open for poetry submissions/new/indie journals included??.
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A dream publisher asked to see my latest full-length manuscript after I queried them! I know to not get too excited yet, but still feels really great. 😎🤓🙏.
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I remember sending off submissions via snail mail to @YaleReview 10 yrs ago. Have been looking forward to this day for a while. Today, my prose poem "The Stranger" from my second full manuscript is "Poem of the Week" on the YR site.🤎🙏. More here:
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Today is the official publication day of “BAD MEXICAN, BAD AMERICAN”!🎉🎉🎉
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Started the decade hospitalized for mental health issues. Ended it w/an MFA, NEA fellowship, & published in over 50 literary magazines, including: Poetry, The Iowa Review, & The American Poetry Review. #PoetrySaves #EndTheStigma.
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Let's start the day with some favorite poems! What's your favorite poem if you had to narrow it down: link or copy and paste if possible??.
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Just talked to the editor of The Yale Review. My prose poem "The Stranger" will be published later this month on their site. Again, I wonder, how is this life??🙃.
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So honored to have my new poem "Hey" published in Poem-a-Day by today! Special thank you to poetry icon Diane Seuss for selecting my poem & all of the poems for March!. Read the poem here:
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just paid my car insurance for a year w/a check from poetry magazine for two prose poems. kind of surreal.🤑💯.
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Well, officially submitted application to USC's CW PHD Program. Wish me luck!
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Big week: moved out to Tennessee to become the writer in residence at the University of Tennessee. My fourth poetry book got picked up “The Lighthouse Tattoo.” More info on the publisher soon. Celebrating by getting some rest watching NFL preseason.
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Pro-tip: don't compare yourself to writers who've been doing it for yrs. That's a miserable way to live. Instead, set reasonable goals, realize prolific writing usually comes from prolific reading, & remember to show love bc life is short.
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one of my new manuscripts got picked up/won an award. can't disclose details yet. but v psyched & grateful despite being home sick & unable to celebrate lol more soon. .
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Ada Limón, current & first Latina United States Poet Laureate.
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Excited that one of my favorite poets & the current Pulitzer Prize winner Diane Seuss has chosen one of my poems for "Poem-a-day" series! To appear next year. 🔥
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realizing I received checks for poetry or readings from Cornell, Yale, & Harvard within the last calendar year. Not bad for a first-gen Mexican American poet who often doubted himself. :).
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Here's my poem, "Bad Mexican, Bad American," the title piece to my next book & published in January 2022 in Qu Literary Magazine. More here:
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working since 5am today, but just signed a contract w/The Georgia Review; a journal that rejected me for 5 yrs & at one point I thought I was fooling myself for even submitting. lol.
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MFA/Phd decisions season reminder: I was wait-listed onto my MFA program. Now, I am on the notable alumni list for their Poets & Writers page. I say this not to brag or take a jab at my MFA program (which I love), but to show that we (or our art) are not always how we are ranked.
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Abt 7 yrs ago, as a young mfa student, I went to meet w/my professor & outside her office were copies of Crazyhorse & The Southern Review. I remember how beautiful the issues looked. I remember thinking, one day I will be in there. This yr I was accepted into both journals. 🤎🙏.
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